ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

10XD0N PERSONALS.

~ London, January 1. i jY I- ;, 01 ! 111 " 1 ? 3 J[ Wrath, of Christclmrch, I(M England fur Canada on Christmas , ]J ,'>; W - J2- Holiai". l'rofessor of Biology at Otago University, is at present in London. Lieut.-Col. Bauchop, and Miss Bauchop, ot Dimcdm and Wellington, are at present on a walking tour in France. lire. George llandford, kite music mistress at the Wanganui Girls' College is .it present stopping in Pcnarth, in South Wales. Mr. 1!. S. Ifellaby, of .Auckland, arrived in Knglaml by the lonic three weeks' ago. He is, later, to lie joined by other members of his family. He spent Christmas with friends in Buckinghamshire. Now Zonlnmlcrs will be edified to learn from the "Birmingham Daily J'ont," in its review of Jlr. W. 11. Koebel's new book, "In Jlaoriland Bush," that "Mr. kocbel has done better work than this. 'I here is, however, little variety in New Zealand, and this subject did" not give him much scope." -Mr. W. J. Roberts, of Christchurch, and his wife and daughter, urrived in London by tlio Orsova. They are at present staying at Hoscombe, where they remain till tiie spring; {hen going, in'easy stages, through the Southern counties, the Midlands, and .Scotland, and returning to London for next winter. They will probably bo absent from New Zealand tor the next couple of years. It is worthy of note, since little owls have been imported in great numbers from France into New Zealand, in the hope that they will make short work of sparrows, that they have the reputation also of killing all birds that they meet, and it has just been decided, thnt'the little, owl is to lie no longer protected in Huntingdonshire, where it has come to ho considered, by reason of its rapid production, a scourge. The death occurred last week, at Southsea, of Captain Henry Holland Torlesse, R.N., elder son of the late Rev. Henry Torlesse, of Christchurch, Captain Torlesse, who was in his 54th year, had been in delicate health for some time, aaid about a month ago, he was compelled to resign his post as Captain-Superintendent of Sheeraesa Dockyard, which ho had held for a little over a year. He was mentioned in dispatches when, as commander of tho St. George, he served in the expedition to punish the King of Benin for a massacre that had taken place, and he was also present at the capture of the .Sultan of Zanzibar's palace. Captain TorlesSD, who left a widow and two daughters was buried in Haslam Cemetery with full naval honours.